On 22/02/2016 20:08, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 2016-02-22 17:29, Michael Howard wrote: >> On 22/02/2016 17:04, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>> On 2016-02-22 16:57, Michael Howard wrote: >>>> On 22/02/2016 16:47, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Anyway, the install does in fact succeed, which is great. I probably >>>>>> should have stuck with the LVM partitioning scheme but hey ho, I can >>>>>> re run things now that I know UEFI is working. >>>>>> >>>>>> So, I have a minimal CentOS install with 4.2.0-0.21.el7.aarch64 >>>>>> kernel. Great start, thanks to all. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is no networking so I need to get the installer to >>>>>> recognise the >>>>>> nics at install time. >>>>> >>>>> So installer produces a bootable system, complete with a working >>>>> kernel? >>>> >>>> Yes, and no. It produces a bootable kernel. >>> >>> Right, but how does that kernel get booted? >>> u-boot -> kernel ? >>> u-boot -> UEFI -> kernel ? >>> u-boot -> UEFI -> grub2 -> kernel ? >>> >>>>> Does it use grub2 or does it do some magic to boot the kernel >>>>> straight >>>>> from UEFI? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I haven't had the nerve to attempt to bun UEFI to SPI-NOR permanently, >>> >>> Oh, I wasn't suggesting that. I cannot think of a good reason to burn >>> UEFI into SPI-NOR vs. chain-loading it from u-boot, since the boot >>> cascade is automatable. >>> >>>> so following the install (and any subsequent ones) I've loaded it from >>>> u-boot manually and then booted directly from UEFI from there. I can >>>> of course automate that I suppose. >>> >>> Right, so post-install the boot process is: >>> u-boot -> UEFI -> kernel ? >>> >> Yes. > > Sweet! Now I just have to try to scrape together enough to get > me one of those cometh pay day. :-D > >>> No grub2 involved? >> No. > > I'll see if I can do something about that when mine arrives. It > would be nice to have it working the same way x86 UEFI works. > > On a semi-related note, is it possible to mount an armv5tel or armv7hl > image, and chroot into it? Does that work? Or is aarch64 not binary > backward compatible with 32-bit ARM binaries like x86-64 is? Just to let you know, I can't get this to work. aarch64 is supposed to be binary compatible, with the correct libraries installed, but I'm thinking the cpu isn't. All I get is 'cannot execute binary file: Exec format error', regardless of what I try. Cheers, Mike. -- Mike Howard